On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Vinzent Höfler <jellyfish.softw...@gmx.net> wrote: > Are you counting up only? Then you can use the 32-bit version of the > InterlockedIncrement on the lower word only. If this turns out to be zero > (the new value is returned) after the operation, you know you also have to > increment the high word. Even with 30'000 transactions per second it takes > about 9 hours until the lower word will be zero again, so the probability > of a race condition happening here is very close to zero.
Yes. Only counting up in this case *but* one of my other stats is UPTIME. Meaning we want to brag about how long the application is running w/o re-starting :-) So restarting the app every time the counter rolls over, just isn't feasible for this application. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
